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The heart-stoppingly gorgeous Margaret Audrey White was denied a job in the BBC as a television announcer in 1951. The reason was that her loveliness could have "alarmed timid men from Wigan and country districts". A commentator said, “Could you watch Miss White talking about depressions over Iceland and absorb what she was saying?”
She graciously accepted the decision: "I do not want to scare any timid male viewers."
Instead, she went on to become a famous bibliophile, supporter of charities, and most importantly to educate women on financial planning and cash management. It ran for eight years - very successfully - until she had to close it when the Equal Opportunities Commission said she was being discriminatory.
(Reference: Lady Wardington - obituary. The Daily Telegraph, Nov 14, 2014.)
(Reference: Lady Wardington - obituary. The Daily Telegraph, Nov 14, 2014.)
1 comments:
Discriminatory, ha! But what did she run - a show? a company?
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